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1
International Environmental Regimes
  • Prof. Liliana B. Andonova

2
Today
  • Course overview
  • Syllabus and requirements
  • Student introductions

3
Global Environmental Problems
  • Air pollution (acid rain, climate, ozone layer)
  • Biodiversity
  • Deforestation
  • Globalization
  • Poverty Populations
  • Fisheries
  • International Waters
  • Cross boundaries
  • No global government
  • Cooperate to achieve global governance

4
International Regimes
  • implicit or explicit principles, norms, rules,
    and decision making procedures around which
    actors expectations converge in a given area of
    international relations.
  • Stephen Krasner (1983) International Regimes, p.2.

5
International Regime Components
  • International agreements/law
  • International organizations/bureaucracies
  • International institutions
  • Soft norms, rules, principles
  • Networks

6
Actors
  • States
  • Advocacy organizations
  • Business
  • Scientific communities
  • Local communities
  • International bureaucracies

7
ES meets IR
  • Apply IR concepts and theories to environmental
    cooperation
  • Focus on non-traditional actors in IR
  • Role of information
  • Role of networks
  • Changing role of the state?

8
Syllabus
  • http//www.colby.edu/landonov/ES334/
  • Concepts and methods
  • Actors and environmental regimes
  • Globalization and environmental norms
  • Research presentations

9
Class requirements
  • Read and Speak up
  • Midterm and Quiz
  • Research paper and website
  • Website presentation
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